Dublin [Ireland], June 6: While downplaying North Korea’s warning for the United States to change its behaviour during negotiations as patience has a limit, President Donald Trump has on Wednesday said he thinks Pyongyang desires to make an agreement with Washington.
According to ANI news reports, the US president told reporters in Dublin, “I think they would like to make a deal and we would like to make a deal,” further adding, he was looking forward to meeting N Korean leader Kim Jong-un “at the appropriate time”.
On Tuesday, North Korea’s foreign ministry spokesperson, in a statement, has urged Washington to “drop its current way of calculation” in order to keep the denuclearization talks alive on the table which was reached during their first historic summit last June.
The spokesperson was quoted by Yonhap news agency as saying, “Whether the June 12 DPRK-US Joint Statement will remain effective or turn out to be a mere blank sheet of paper will now be determined by how the US would respond to our fair and reasonable stand.”
It further added, “The US should duly look back on the part one year and cogitate about which will be a correct strategic choice before it is too late. The US would be well-advised to change its current method of calculation and respond to our request as soon as possible.”
In April, a similar call was made during which Kim had stated he would be waiting for the US’ “courageous decision” until 2019 end.
Four months after the stalled talks between the US President and his North Korean counterpart Kim in Hanoi, Vietnam, Pyongyang has renewed its urged for dialogues with Washington. The Hanoi summit has failed abruptly due to a large difference between the two leaders as Kim stressed for sanction relief and Trump focused over Kim’s last year promise of complete denuclearization of the Korean peninsula.